Impacto do estilo de vida na fertilidade feminina: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

Objective: To analyze scientific evidence on the impact of lifestyle on female fertility. Methods: Integrative literature review that allows you to synthesize results from other studies in a systematic, orderly and comprehensive way. Five primary studies, published in the January period, were included. 2015 to Jan 15 of 2021 in English, Spanish and Portuguese and located in the MEDLINE, LILACS, Scopus, COCHRANE, CINAHL databases. The synthesis of the findings was made by the similarity of the themes and descriptive statistics were used for the analysis of the results. Results: The results of the studies were categorized into "Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants" addressing the variables mean age of participants and, to a lesser extent, parity, marital status, education and skin color, and "Impact of lifestyle on female fertility" with the variables physical activity practice, body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio, alcohol consumption, smoking and caffeine consumption. The practice of physical activity improves the fertility of women, while those who are overweight, obese and smokers have reduced fertility. Final considerations: The studied lifestyle indicators revealed both positive and negative impacts on the fecundity or fertility of the participating women. In this context, actions to promote health and work to raise awareness of women, especially during reproductive family planning, for the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits throughout their entire life cycle are important.

Keywords: Fertility; Lifestyle; Revision.